NY Legislature Passes Absurd Law Renaming Mother and Father to "Gestating Parent" and "Non-gestating Parent"

Jun 12, 2026

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Just when I thought it couldn’t get any worse, New York legislators pass a law replacing “mother” and “father” in portions of its legal code with “gestating parent” and “non-gestating parent.”

Read that again.

A mother is now a gestating parent. A father is now a non-gestating parent.

Some people will immediately rush to assure us that this is just legal terminology. Just bureaucratic housekeeping. Just a technical adjustment to account for modern family arrangements.

I don’t buy it.

Have you ever hear the expression, “the law is a teacher”?

NY Legislature Passes Absurd Law Renaming Mother and Father to "Gestating Parent" and "Non-gestating Parent"

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